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No. 645,30l. Patnted Mar. 13, 1900:;

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UNITED. STATEs PATENT OEErcE.

CHARLES EDIV ARD SCARSE, OF BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.

BINDING BOOKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 645,301, dated March 13, 1900.

' Application filed July 20, 1898. Serial No. 686,480. (No model.)

To alt whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES EDWARD SOARSE, librarian of the Birmingham Library, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Birmingham, in the county of \Varwick, England, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Binding Books, (for which I have applied for a patent in Great Britain, No. 27,285, dated November 20, 1897, and on June 4, 1898, No. 12,542; in France, July 5, 1898, No. 267,278, and in Belgium, July 2, 1898, No. 106,755,)of which the following is a specification.

In the ordinary method of binding booksin the manner commonly called casing the printed matter of the book is so imperfectly connected to the casing or cover of the book that when the book is much used the printed matter separates wholly or in part from its cover. 1

The object of my invention is therefore to so improve the mode of and means for easing the book that the printed matter of the said cased book is as firmly, or nearly as firmly, connected to its cover as in the case of a book bound by the best method of binding, and this I effect without materially adding to the cost of easing.

A book properly cased in accordance with my specification may be recased or rebound without resewing, thereby indefinitely prolonging the life of the book.

The invention is hereinafter more fully set forth and more particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of two signatures, end paper, and binding-tape. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the book ready for the cover. Fig. 3 is a crosssection through the book and cover.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts throughout the specification and drawings.

In carrying myinvention into effect the sections or folds E of the book to be cased or covered are sewed on the tapes Fin the ordinary way; but the back of the said sections or folds E should not be sawed or cut in any way. The end paper B, which is preferably of the same paper as the book, is cut wider than the size of the section, so that the said end paper B may cover the front of the first section of the book and be folded over the back, as shown by Z). A second end paper A, which is mounted on fine linen jaconet or other suitable material, is cut slightly wider than the end paper B to enable it to embrace two sections or folds E and E of the book and to be folded over thesecond section E, being ultimately pasted on to the inside of the front cover of the book.

In commencing to sew the book the linenbacked end paper A is laid in front of the sewing-frame linen side down, with the folds of resting against the tapes F, on which the sections E E of the books are to be sewed.

The first section E, with the end papers 13 folded over the back of it, is placed in position for sewing, the needle being passed through the said section in the ordinary way and through the end paper B and end paper A, as shown at h. The foldover of the end paper B is pressed or flattened down over the section E at b and the second section E is placed in position for being sewed, the needle passing through the section E and through the end paper A. The foldover of the end paperAis then pressed orflattened down over the section E and the other sections are sewed on in the ordinary way until the last two sec= tions are arrived at, when the last section but oneis provided with a linen-backed end paper A, similar to that previously described with regard to the second section at the commencement of the book and which is folded over and sewed on, the needle passing through the section and the linen backed end paper A. The last section is provided with an end paper similar to the first-described end paper B and is placed in position between the previous section and its end paper A, the needle being passed through the section and its end paper B and also through the end paperA of the preceding section. The sewing h is finished off in the ordinary way, and the tapes F are cut away from the sewing-frame, allowing the tapes to project a liberal amount beyond the back of the book on each side. The book now being ready to be placed in its cover is well pressed and the tapes F are pulled tight over the end papers A and held in position by paste or other adhesive matter and the book placed in position between the cover 0, the linen backed end papers A being then pasted down onto the front and back boards of the cover and the book allowed to dry in the press in the ordinary way.

It is not necessary to use the pasted-down supplementary decorative end papers, especially if the same paper as that on which the book is printed is used for the divided end papers A and 13;. but it is indispensable that the end papersA should be mounted on fine linen orjaconet orothersuitable material andsewcd on the section of the book, as before described, and that these end papers A should be firmly pasted down or otherwise secured to the cover 0 of the book and well pressed. It may be found convenient to make the end papers, With their paste-downs all complete before sewing them onto the sections of the book; but in all other respects the methods described must be employed and the first two and the last two sections must be sewed onto the linen and paper guards a? and b, which are left projecting from the end papers A and B. Although they are generally necessary,l do not confine myself to the use of the end papers B, as they might be omitted without departing from my said invention, in which case the linen-backed end papers A may be folded over only the first and last sections of the book.

In books cased, covered, or bound in accordance with my improvements it will be seen on reference to the drawings that the covers G are firmly connected with the linen or cloth of the end papers A, becoming as much part of the cover as the linen or cloth covering the outside thereof, the book being,

therefore, practically sewed onto the cover, and in such a manner that the liability of the cover to become detached from the printed matter of the book, as is the case with books cased, covered, or bound in the ordinary way, is altogether obviated.

Surfaced and colored bookbinders cloth may be substituted for the linen or cotton backed end papers A, those of the lighter shades being the most suitable.

What I claim is- As a new article of manufacture, a book embracing in its construction a cover, first and last signatures adjacent to the cover, intermediate signatures between the first and last signatures, end papers for the first and last signatures, each end paper of a greater width than the book, the back portion of each end paper folded over and secured to the back of its respective first or last signature, and to the back of the adjacent intermediate signature the body portion of each end paper secured to the inner side of the adjacent cover, and binding-tapes located outside the folds of the end papers sewed to the back of all the signatures and through the end papers, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof Ihave signed my' name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES EDW'ARD SOARSE.

Witnesses:

THOMAS MARsToN, LEWIS WM. GooLD. 

